The role of argumentation in online epistemic communities: the anatomy of a conflict in Wikipedia

Dominique Fréard (1) , Alexandre A. J. Denis (2) , Françoise Détienne (1) , Michael Baker (1) , Matthieu Quignard (3) , Flore Barcellini (4)

1 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
2 TALARIS - Natural Language Processing: representation, inference and semantics
3 ICAR - Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations
4 CRTD - Centre de recherche sur le travail et le développement

This research aims to investigate the processes by which knowledge objects — in this case Wikipedia pages on astronomy — are elaborated, in online communities, focussing on the role of argumentative interactions.

Keywords: Argumentation; Interactive profiles; Collaborative knowledge production; Conflict; Online communities

Domains: Library and information sciences

Dominique Fréard, Alexandre A. J. Denis, Françoise Détienne, Michael Baker, Matthieu Quignard, et al.. The role of argumentation in online epistemic communities: the anatomy of a conflict in Wikipedia. 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2010), European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics, Aug 2010, Delft, Netherlands. pp. 91-98, ⟨10.1145/1962300.1962320⟩. ⟨hal-00516994⟩